Table 3.

Sexual Satisfaction, Availability of Alternatives, and Marital Quality

	Sample 1				Sample 2
	b	SE			b	SE
Wives’ Sexual Satisfaction
Marital Quality	W:	.22***	.05	W:	.39***	.04
	H:	.07†	.04	H:	.05	.03
Availability of Alternatives	W:	-.39***	.11	W:	-.35**	.11
Wives’ Availability of Alternatives
Marital Quality	W:	-.05*	.02	W:	-.08***	.02
Husbands’ Sexual Satisfaction
Marital Quality	H:	.24***	.04	H:	.21***	.04
	W:	.13**	.05	W:	.05	.05
Availability of Alternatives	H:	-.18†	.11	H:	-.52***	.11
Husbands’ Availability of Alternatives
Marital Quality	H:	-.04*	.02	H:	-.08***	.02
Husbands’ Education
Marital Quality	W:	.07***	.02	W:	.03†	.02
Wives’ Education
Marital Quality	H:	.04**	.02	H:	.04**	.01
Husband's Age
Sexual Satisfaction				H:	.01*	.004

Note: All effects are reported as standardized regression coefficients (b). W = wife, H = husbands.

^†p<.10

^*p<.05

^**p<.01

^***p<.001